10-13 NOV

The Playhouse

Writer

Andrew Bovell

Director AND Dramaturg

Chris Drummond

Designer

Hossein Valamanesh

Composer

Quentin Grant

Lighting Designer

Niklas Pajanti

Video Design

TheimaGen

Producer

Kay Jamieson

Cast

Paul Blackwell, Michaela Cantwell, Carmel Johnson,
Kris McQuade, Yalin Ozucelik, Anna Lise Phillips, Neil Pigot and musician Quentin Grant

RUNNING TIME

130 minutes, no interval

WARNING

Occasional coarse language

Experience a spellbinding saga as rich and deep as the nation that inspired it

Alice Springs in the year 2039. A fish falls from the sky and lands at the feet of Gabriel York. It still smells of the sea. It's been raining for days and Gabriel knows something is wrong.

Eighty years earlier, his grandfather predicted that in 2039, fish would fall from the sky, heralding a great flood that would overcome the human race. When the Rain Stops Falling takes place between the worlds of these two men - between a prediction in 1959 and its outcome 80 years later. Through four generations of interconnected stories, this epic tale takes us from 1950s London to the windswept coast of South Australia and into the heart of the Australian desert.

This is a sweeping Australian drama of epic proportions by Andrew Bovell, best known for writing the Australian film Lantana.

When the Rain Stops Falling was the surprise theatrical hit of the 2008 Adelaide Festival and has gone on to win a swathe of awards including a 2008 South Australian Ruby Award for Best Work, two Adelaide Critics' Circle Awards, the Louis Esson Prize for Drama at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Drama Script (Stage).

 

Dates & Times

Pre-Show Forum

Wed 10 Nov 7pm

Gala opening

Wed 10 Nov 8pm
Thurs 11 Nov 8pm
Fri 12 Nov 8pm
Sat 13 Nov 2pm [Captioned]
Sat 13 Nov 8pm